Corrections policy
What we do when we get something wrong.
We will get things wrong. When we do, we correct them openly rather than quietly, because a publication that edits its mistakes away is asking you to trust something you cannot check.
A correction is appended to the bottom of the article, permanently. It records when the correction was made and what was wrong — written so that someone who never saw the original can understand what changed. We do not delete the error and move on, and we do not alter a published article’s facts without saying that we have.
We distinguish three cases. A correction means we published something factually wrong. A clarification means what we published was accurate but open to being misread. An update means the story itself has moved on since publication.
Serious errors — anything affecting a named person’s reputation, or a fact central to the story — are corrected at the top of the article as well as the bottom.
To report an error, write to contact@telugumatters.com with the article and what is wrong with it. We will respond the same day, and we will tell you what we decided even if we conclude the article was right.